I was not sure until Dec 1st whether I would be able to attend the trek or not as the exam that was scheduled on Dec 1st could have got postponed to 5th or 7th because of the telangana bandh. Luckily my exam never got postponed and I was happy for it.
Start of our journey
There were 3 pick up points, 1st at the Google office and we were 
supposed to be there by 4.30am and by the time I reached the place, there were 6 members from the group waiting. Of them i knew vamshi annaya and Anup whom I met in the earlier trek. Said hi to all the members and we kept waiting for Jagan sir to arrive.
After he arrived we started our journey and the next stop was at nagarjuna circle and 11 members boarded here. Said hi to other group members who were going to Medak trek and we left. 3rd stop was at malakpet and 2members boarded here; bringing the total count to 21....At around 8.30 am we stopped for 
around. There were 4 good photographers in the group (jagan,sree,vamshi,vinit),and after a photo session we started of again..
Our next stop was at Umamaheshwaram temple. Here we were welcomed by the monkeys that were in large no. The driver had knowledge about this place, so immediately after parking the vehicle he took out a
big stick to drive away the monkeys which kept approaching the van. We started to climb the hill and we reached the top of the hill. The view of the road from this place was picturesque, took some p
hotos here and moved ahead. We had 3 options for our return journey, 1st was going back in the same path that we had come, 2nd was to go down through the bushes and the 3rd was going to the end of the hill and then coming down over the slope which was less bushy. The return journey was left to our choice and many chose the 2nd path which was adventurous .I and Anup lead the group finding way down. Initially it all looked fine, but after 10 minutes of descend we had encountered thorny bushes all along the path and we had to take steps carefully. I and Anup parted our paths and kept communicating often so as to know which path was easier one and we asked the others to take that path. It was hell lot of adventure making paths through the thorny bushes; the more we tried to avoid them the more we got pricked by the thorns. Believe me or not, every one who had taken the 2nd path had 2-3 thorns under their skin. As for me I removed 3 thorns from my body 2 days after the trek. The worst part during descend was that I, anup and vinit were wearing sandals .the last quarter distance again was a good path as there were no thorny bushes. After getting to the bottom we kept waiting for the others to turn up. Then all of a sudden we heard voices of people and when we looked around 3 members from the group have not made it to the base .This grp started late and they took the 3rd path which was easier than the 2nd path. After waiting for 5mins padmaja, Prasad a
nd Divyani arrived. Mean while ever one was busy pulling out the thorns.we spent 5-10 min here and we started our journey to the 2nd destination Mallelateertham . on the way we stopped for lunch at Chenchu lakshmi restaurant in Munnanur(nothing but the punnami hotels run by ap tourism)only 7 of us had lunch here and I was one among them and I rate it 2/5,while the rest ate food that was bought by group members. On our way to Mallelateertham we met Arun Raj who is a member of the club. He along with a couple of member’s runs a school that is supported by the govt. the main purpose is to bring awareness among the children and providing them with better opportunities. Prasad, vamshi and few others made some donations for the children which were mainly sports items. Arun raj along with 2 of the students guided us towards the water fall. initially I decided not to get in to the water, but as we started descending down the steps the sound of the water fall made me rethink about the decision that I took earlier and as soon as I reached the water fall even without giving a 2nd thought I changed my dress and went under the water fall. Water came down as bullets which kept falling from a height more than 150ft. The rock where the water kept falling was slippery and only J
agan managed to climb it as he had experience. Never felt like leaving the place, but as there was one more place to see we left the place half heartedly. We reached the parking place and under the guidance of the two students who came along with us we started for the mouth of the waterfall. After walking for 15 min we reached the place. The view from this point was so picturesque .we spent 30-45 min here, took some snaps and headed back to the parking place. All the members assembled at the parking place and we had introduction of all the members. During the introduction when sree told that they were married for 17yrs, everyone was surprised as they looked like a recently married couple. After the introduction was over we all started for srisailam. We thanked arun and the two students before they got down at the check post. By the time we reached Srisailam it was 8.30pm 
and Jagan’s aunt and uncle were waiting for us, they handed us the keys for the rooms and we all thanked them for the pains they had taken in securing rooms for us. We dumped our luggage in the rooms and after refreshment we had dinner in Ilapuram restaurant and I rate it4/5. After dinner we went out as vamshi annaya had to buy a video cassette and we were instructed by jagan to get back to the rooms in 15 mins. We spent 45min on the streets going here and there until jagan called vamsi and asked us to get back to the rooms. Chaya took all the blame for us for being late. We all got back in to our rooms and had a good night 
sleep. I, vamshi and sree were in one room and we woke up at 4.30am and started waking up others. Every one got ready by 6.30am and we handed over the rooms and assembled out and we had
Umamaheshwaram---
Before starting the trek we were clearly instructed by Jagan to take the path of the jeep track only. we started the trek and after walking for 1km I, Anup and sarath decided to 
take a deroute into the forest and we were lucky to see another water fall which no other member did. We also spotted a peacock, but could not capture any images of it, we heard sounds of a woodpecker pecking wood, and we also plucked some tamarind and ate. We maintained our distance from the jeep track. After walking half of the distance there was a water stream and we had refreshment there and started to walk again. when we were 1km away from the temple we came across 2 people who were carrying 
a sick woman and when asked why they were not taking a jeep they said that they can reach the road faster than what the jeeps can and tht its much safer than traveling in the jeeps….finally when we reached the destination we found the rest of the members relaxing. A lot
of things have changed at the temple, now they started collecting money for entrance in to the temple. after requesting one of the tribal, he allowed us to give a shot with his bow and arrows .after 4th shot he collected back his bow and arrows as 1 of the arrows broke as it miss hit a rock and feared that we might break the remaining too. We said sorry to him and paid him some money for hiss loss. From there we walked to a 
near by water fall and had a good photo session. I, vamshi and anup were the last to leave the water fall. After walking back near to the temple we found jaga ,vinit,divyani who missed the water fall taking rest. We accompanied them, had some snacks and started again. While returning a dog kept following us for the entire stretch of 11km.at times it walked ahead of us and looked around and kept 
waiting for us, it looked as if it was securing the area for us. We fed the dog with biscuits, bread and chocolate. We were all tired during the return journey and finally made it to the road and kept waiting for others to turn up. a small camp fire was started by the initiation of Chaya 
,while Prasad and others collected the wood. vamshi walked 2km to the parking place where the van was parked and we all kept waiting for the van. Finally when the van arrived we were amazed to see the dog get down the van and when we asked vamshi, he told that the dog followed him to the van. We extinguished the fire and fed the dog with some bread and boarded the van. It was hard for us to leave the dog behind and started our return journey, before crossing the checkpost we stopped for tea .we decided to have dinner at the same place where we had lunch earlier day and this time the food was even worse than what it was the earlier day .Only boiled egg and pickle tasted good which u get every where. After dinner we all boarded the van and by 12.30am we reached malakpet and by the time I reached home it was 2am.
We all had fun during the entire trip and we thank Jagan sir for organizing this wonderful trek.we all made a good group and I thank all the members for their company.
This is my first blog, so after reading please let me know if I had made any errors and suggest me so that the next time I would be able to write much better.
